SAP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

SAP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 62 32
Rank change year-on-year +4 -30 +60
Contract jobs citing SAP 87 65 113
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.80% 3.61% 5.42%
As % of the Vendors category 8.80% 7.39% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 32 70
10th Percentile £363 £363 £448
25th Percentile £523 £455 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +3.90%
75th Percentile £738 £681 £688
90th Percentile £821 £747 £802
Central London median daily rate £600 £520 £600
% change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £23.93 -
25th Percentile - £30.15 £146.25
Median hourly rate - £41.35 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year - -71.97% -
75th Percentile - £52.96 £148.75
90th Percentile - £59.43 -
Central London median hourly rate - £41.35 £147.50
% change year-on-year - -71.97% -

All Vendors
City of London

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 989 879 925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.17% 48.83% 44.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 688 576 614
10th Percentile £350 £318 £343
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.45%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £757
Central London median daily rate £540 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +0.75% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.88 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £22.83 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.11% +28.33% -25.52%
75th Percentile £29.78 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.48 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -25.52%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SAP job vacancy trend in the City of London

SAP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the City of London

SAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.15%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 25 (28.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (6.90%) SAP HCM
3 5 (5.75%) SAP ERP
4 2 (2.30%) iTrent
4 2 (2.30%) NetSuite
4 2 (2.30%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (2.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (2.30%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (2.30%) SAP BRIM
4 2 (2.30%) SAP GRC
4 2 (2.30%) SAP MDG
4 2 (2.30%) SAP MM
4 2 (2.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (2.30%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (1.15%) Primavera
5 1 (1.15%) SAP CRM
5 1 (1.15%) SAP FI
5 1 (1.15%) SAP HR
5 1 (1.15%) SAP R/3
5 1 (1.15%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.09%) Azure
2 13 (14.94%) SuccessFactors
3 6 (6.90%) AWS
3 6 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.75%) GCP
5 4 (4.60%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.60%) SaaS
6 3 (3.45%) Boomi
7 2 (2.30%) AtomSphere
7 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.30%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.15%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.15%) Matillion
8 1 (1.15%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.15%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.15%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.75%) Power BI
2 4 (4.60%) SAP BW
3 3 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (3.45%) Metadata
4 2 (2.30%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.15%) GIS
5 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.15%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.45%) eggPlant
2 2 (2.30%) JMeter
2 2 (2.30%) LoadRunner
2 2 (2.30%) Postman
2 2 (2.30%) SoapUI
2 2 (2.30%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.15%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.15%) HP UFT
3 1 (1.15%) JIRA
3 1 (1.15%) Rational Functional Tester
3 1 (1.15%) Selenium
3 1 (1.15%) SilkTest
3 1 (1.15%) SOAtest
General
1 26 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.44%) Finance
3 12 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.75%) Banking
5 5 (5.75%) Billing
6 4 (4.60%) Local Government
7 3 (3.45%) Law
7 3 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.45%) Retail
8 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.30%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.30%) Legal
8 2 (2.30%) Marketing
9 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (20.69%) Architect
2 14 (16.09%) Analyst
2 14 (16.09%) Consultant
3 11 (12.64%) SAP Consultant
4 8 (9.20%) Lead
4 8 (9.20%) SAP Manager
4 8 (9.20%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (8.05%) Project Manager
6 5 (5.75%) Data Analyst
6 5 (5.75%) SAP Analyst
7 4 (4.60%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.60%) Cutover Manager
7 4 (4.60%) SAP Cutover Manager
7 4 (4.60%) Senior
8 3 (3.45%) Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Integration Architect
8 3 (3.45%) Oracle Consultant
8 3 (3.45%) Report Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) SAP Project Manager
9 2 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.34%) Middleware
1 9 (10.34%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (8.05%) XML
3 6 (6.90%) SOAP
4 5 (5.75%) JSON
5 4 (4.60%) .NET
5 4 (4.60%) OAuth
5 4 (4.60%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (3.45%) JWT
6 3 (3.45%) OAuth2
6 3 (3.45%) REST
6 3 (3.45%) SAML
6 3 (3.45%) Web Services
7 2 (2.30%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.30%) HTML
7 2 (2.30%) Kafka
7 2 (2.30%) XBRL
7 2 (2.30%) XSLT
8 1 (1.15%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (1.15%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (5.75%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.45%) FMCG
4 2 (2.30%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.30%) IoT
4 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.30%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.30%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.30%) Replication
5 1 (1.15%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.15%) CMDB
5 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.15%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.45%) Linux
1 3 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (33.33%) ERP
2 26 (29.89%) Migration
3 20 (22.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (20.69%) Data Migration
5 15 (17.24%) User Acceptance Testing
6 14 (16.09%) Data Modelling
6 14 (16.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 12 (13.79%) Translating Business Requirements
8 11 (12.64%) Integration Patterns
8 11 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (10.34%) Change Management
9 9 (10.34%) Risk Management
9 9 (10.34%) Roadmaps
9 9 (10.34%) Validation
10 8 (9.20%) Agile
10 8 (9.20%) Data Governance
11 7 (8.05%) Analytics
11 7 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (8.05%) Data Mapping
11 7 (8.05%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.64%) SQL
2 6 (6.90%) Python
3 4 (4.60%) Java
4 3 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.30%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.15%) ABAP
6 1 (1.15%) C#
6 1 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.15%) Korn
6 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.05%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.45%) Degree
4 2 (2.30%) CIPD
4 2 (2.30%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.30%) PMP
4 2 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.15%) CISM
5 1 (1.15%) CISSP
5 1 (1.15%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.15%) ISEB
5 1 (1.15%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.90%) GDPR
3 3 (3.45%) GRC
3 3 (3.45%) PMO
3 3 (3.45%) QA
3 3 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.15%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 19770
4 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.30%) IAG
2 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.30%) HP Fortify
2 1 (1.15%) Control-M
Vendors
1 25 (28.74%) Oracle
2 18 (20.69%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.75%) Databricks
4 4 (4.60%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.60%) Workday
5 3 (3.45%) Google
5 3 (3.45%) IBM
5 3 (3.45%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.30%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.30%) Ariba
6 2 (2.30%) Informatica
6 2 (2.30%) OpenText
7 1 (1.15%) Adobe
7 1 (1.15%) IFS
7 1 (1.15%) Intapp
7 1 (1.15%) Kronos
7 1 (1.15%) Palantir
7 1 (1.15%) Qualtrics
7 1 (1.15%) VMware